Grafter Broken for Tree Breeding?

[GaiasEyes]

Hi all,

First post, actually signed up for this forum to get help with this. I'm just starting out on tree breeding. I've got two apiaries with meadow bees and 4 forestry oak trees and 4 silverwood birch trees in range of the apiaries. I'm seeing mutated leaves so I know I'm using the correct saplings and that my bees are good. I am breaking the leaves with a grafter (full durability) but the only sapling I get is either a hybrid oak/birch or pure birch :-( . Why am I not getting silver limes?

Any and all help is VERY appreciated!!! ^.^

 

[KhrFreak]

you're just having bad luck, according to the wiki it's only a 15% chance of getting a silver Lime from Birch and Oak

 

[SatanicSanta]

Are you sure you treealyzed the saplings first?

 

[Omicron]

Are you sure you treealyzed the saplings first?

That is actually irrelevant... bees will happily pollinate vanilla trees too.

@ OP: There's two trees in Forestry that will only breed in special biome conditions, but the silver lime is not one of them. I recommend you simply try a couple more times. when you have 20-30 saplings and still no mutation, then it's time to worry that something might be wrong.

 

[Bashful Giant]

Yup- it's just bad luck.

Just a few tips On Speeding up tree breeding-
Certain bees can speed up the pollination speed- increasing the number of cross pollinations.
Plant LOTS of the trees you want to cross pollinate in an area containing only those trees.
Spectacles make it much easier to see cross-pollinated leaves.

 

[Mero]

Also, since nobody else pointed this out, The grafter is doing it's job, which is to ensure you get a sapling from every leave you break with it.

The Grafter is a Forestry tool essential for Arboriculture. It guarantees a 100% sapling drop rate when used to break cross-bred tree leaves. On regular non cross-bred leaves, it has no effect, i.e. the sapling drop rate is the same as it would be normally. The Grafter has a durability of 5.

But as others have said, you are just unlucky at the moment.

I just started breeding some trees and got a silver lime after breaking like 5 or 6 leaves.

 

[Omicron]

The Grafter is a Forestry tool essential for Arboriculture. It guarantees a 100% sapling drop rate when used to break cross-bred tree leaves. On regular non cross-bred leaves, it has no effect, i.e. the sapling drop rate is the same as it would be normally. The Grafter has a durability of 5.

Nope.

The grafter works on any and all leaves, cross-bred or not... so long as they have Forestry genome data. That means they do not work on vanilla trees. But run an oak tree through a treealyzer to give it a genome, and grafters start working.

Trees which cannot be given a genome, such as Thaumcraft silverwood trees, will obviosuly never see it work.

 

[Mero]

Nope.

The grafter works on any and all leaves, cross-bred or not... so long as they have Forestry genome data. That means they do not work on vanilla trees. But run an oak tree through a treealyzer to give it a genome, and grafters start working.

Trees which cannot be given a genome, such as Thaumcraft silverwood trees, will obviosuly never see it work.

I just copied that from the wiki. Talk to them about it being wrong. I know it works on all leaves, I use it.
But the point I was trying to make, the grafter is only there for one purpose, To ensure a 100% drop rate from broken leaves.

 

[GaiasEyes]

Thanks for all the replies! You all were right, I was just having bad luck. Since then I've progressed well in to the plains tree line. More bees + more trees has made everything MUCH better. Now if I could just get sweet chestnuts...

Thanks!